Good News From The War On Terror 12/19-20
Coalition forces capture Special Groups leader, disrupt criminal element network
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups leader during operations Wednesday in the northern Baghdad area.
The targeted individual was the Special Groups criminal element leader for Diyala Province and oversaw logistics and operations in the area. He was reportedly responsible for storing weapons and procuring lethal aid, including explosively formed penetrators, to support Special Group criminal attacks on Iraqi and Coalition forces.The targeted individual used funding and training to support the criminal activities he commanded. The suspected criminal is also reportedly an associate of several other senior-level Special Groups members from Diyala to Baghdad, who were involved in attacks on Coalition forces.
Coalition forces capture Special Groups criminal element leader, detain three suspects
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition forces captured a Special Groups leader and detained two other suspected criminals during operations to disrupt criminal element networks early Sunday in the Baghdad area.
The targeted individual reportedly supplied various weapons, such as explosively formed penetrators, rocket propelled grenades, improvised explosive devices and mortars, to various Special Group criminal elements to aid in attacks on Coalition forces. He was coordinating criminal cells throughout the Diyala province. In addition, he was reportedly an associate of several other senior-level criminal element leaders who were involved in attacks on Coalition forces.Intelligence led ground forces to the target area, where they captured the targeted individual and detained the two other suspects without incident.
During the operation, ground forces also discovered two assault rifles, two pistols, two machine guns, night vision goggles and large amounts of American and Iranian currency.
MND-N Soldiers find atrocity site, torture complex and weapons caches during Operation Iron Reaper
TIKRIT, Iraq – During Operation Iron Reaper, Multi-National Division – North Soldiers killed 24 extremists, detained 37 suspects, and discovered an atrocity site, torture complex and nine weapons caches north of Muqdadiyah Dec. 8-11.
Intelligence provided by Iraqi tips led U.S. troops to a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq safe haven and operating bases. Evidence of murder, torture, and intimidation against local villagers was found throughout the area.
During the operation, U.S. Forces and Iraqi Security Forces were involved in multiple engagements with groups of armed men. They discovered what appeared to be a detention facility. As they continued to clear the area, they found several bodies and eventually uncovered 26 human remains in multiple mass graves next to execution sites.In the same area a torture complex was found, consisting of three detention facilities with one doubling as both a headquarters building and torture facility. The buildings contained chains on the walls and ceilings, a bed still hooked up to an electrical system, and several blood-stained items.
U.S. Forces also located and destroyed nine weapons caches anti-aircraft weapons, sniper rifles, more than 65 machine guns and pistols, 50 grenades, a surface-to-air missile launcher and platform, 98 personnel mines, 170 pipe bombs, 130 pounds of homemade explosives, 21 rocket propelled grenades, numerous mortar tubes and rounds.
